Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world's petroleum resources when the war is over, and I will undertake to analyze the durability of the peace that is to come." -Harold L. Ickes...
...Alone among the dead, he jumped out, was carried seaward by a swift tide. When he finally did reach another boat and hauled himself into it, he found only dead marines there. He stayed with the dead all night. Next morning he was close to being shot for a Jap: during the night the enemy had swum to disabled landing craft and were using them as machine-gun nests. Not until Tarawa's third day did Bundy finally get ashore...
...full year's schedule has not yet been released, but it is known that the Stahlmen have only four more home games, the next one a week from Saturday when the Blue comes up from New Haven for the first in a home-and-home series to reach its climax at Yale on January...
...Hour. The first wave had been ordered to hit the shore at 8:30. Correspondent Sherrod had been assigned to the fifth wave, commanded by Major Howard Rice, which would reach the beach 31 minutes later, presumably after the first four waves had established comfortable positions. But now it was obvious that H Hour would be delayed because the Jap fire had forced the transports to shift to a safer area...
...show what he could do, the Fourteenth's commander last week sent his fighter-escorted, medium-range B-25 bombers racing over Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa off the east coast of China (see col. 1). The fact that medium-range B-25s and fighters could reach Formosa reminded observers that the Chinese had long since built advance airdromes in eastern China, in the hope that they some day would be used against Tokyo...